Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1227 A New Chapter
People need to have goals, and the same is true for countries. For example, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had no goals, or the goal was to maintain the rule of the Manchus.

So from the beginning of its birth, everything this country has done is to maintain its Manchu rule. Therefore, restricting firearms, promoting literary inquisition, not thinking about progress, and only seeking to maintain rule will naturally make the entire civilization stagnate or even fall behind.

Wang Yan believes that the country needs a goal, not just pursuing peace in the world as before. Such an empty thing must have a clear goal.

For example, to enrich the country and strengthen the army, with this goal, the imperial court can quickly operate around this goal in administration, open up business routes to encourage commerce, train new troops, and manufacture new equipment. The dynasty will show great vitality.

In the previous dynasties, most of the problems occurred, and then they thought about the solution. They seldom took the initiative to set a goal and only wanted peace for the moment.

A dynasty is very different when it has goals and when it doesn't.Qin said that he wanted to change the law and strive for strength, and swept Liuhe for the sixth generation.

Reforms and changes should be carried out at all times, because the activities of the whole society are in motion. If you don’t keep up with the pace, once you stop changing and settle for the status quo, then after a long time, when the problem becomes serious, it will be too late to become afraid .

Wang Yan made some changes to the cabinet in "A New Chapter of Senior Citizens", the main purpose of which is to allow the cabinet to have one goal after another and maintain vitality.

Every cabinet minister in the Ming Dynasty was generally a hall official. For example, before entering the cabinet, the Minister of the Ministry of Households had to declare how much the court’s taxes would increase a year after he entered the cabinet. Or how much land will be reclaimed and how much population will increase, all of which must be put into specific values.

If it cannot be completed, when the officials are evaluated, the officials will be demoted, and the officials will be demoted, and they will be put in the place where they should be placed.

In this way, the administrative enthusiasm of the cabinet scholars will be improved, and the competition among officials will be strengthened. After being driven to the local government, when the officials return to the central government with political achievements, because they understand the people's conditions and have experience in governing, The administrative ability must be stronger, so that there will always be capable ministers in the cabinet.

In the past, as long as the bachelor did not make mistakes and the country was stable, he could stay in the cabinet forever, but now as long as his political performance has not improved compared with his predecessor, he may be taken down.

There are so many officials in Ming Dynasty, and there are only seven cabinet bachelors, and many officials also want to be a phase.

This enlivened the atmosphere in the officialdom and corrected the atmosphere.As long as officials have outstanding political achievements, they can be appointed as marquises and ministers. They can focus on the competition of political achievements, and prevent groups like Donglin from reemerging.

If the cabinet master sits on one buttock for ten years, and the people below cannot climb up, I am afraid there will be a lot of resentment, either they have no hope of rising, they are slack in administration, or they are depressed and complain about the court.

In this way, even within the same party, the competition will become fierce. After all, all college students want to do it.

Political achievements and completion will also become the evaluation criteria for local officials. If the population of a county does not increase, the area of ​​cultivated land decreases, and the number of elementary school children decreases, the county officials will also be demoted.

To do so is to force officials to have goals so that they cannot slack off.

The officials naturally didn't like this, but Wang Yangang regained Shenjing and became the supervisor of the country, and almost no one dared to object at this time.

In addition to the changes in the cabinet and the officialdom, the main content of the new chapter of senior officials is on the registration of households and the people.

With the disintegration of the social structure of the original Ming Dynasty, a large number of people flooded into the city. Wang Yan felt that it was necessary to re-census the population, and on the basis of the Guiyi and Hanji system proposed by Wang Fuzhi, further subdivide the Hanji, according to Based on fame, assets, or payment of taxes, the Chinese people are divided into upper households, middle households, lower households, or more levels, and then according to the level to collect taxes, arrange labor and enjoy some rights and interests.

The entire "New Chapter of Senior Citizens" stipulates many new policies around these two major aspects.

For example, in the first article of the opening chapter, the emperor appointed state affairs supervisors, and all government orders were issued by the imperial court thereafter.

This is the basis of the entire reform. It prevents the emperor from promoting officials because of his personal preference, and also abolishes the emperor's power to appoint officials without going through the judiciary. In this way, the order of the court is the only order, and the reform has authority.

This in itself is beneficial to the cabinet, and after a generation, this will become the consensus of the Ming Dynasty.

Article [-]: Officials sent by the Chamber of Commerce to inspect local areas, and registered Han citizens are eligible to put forward various suggestions and questions to the officials of the Chamber of Commerce. question.

The upper household registration here is also not fixed. The imperial court makes statistics once a year or three years, and if the bankrupt is downgraded, the lower household registration can also be upgraded to the upper household registration.

In addition to reducing the taxes borne by ordinary people, the division of household registration can also increase the status of merchants and encourage business.

Businessmen who pay more taxes can be rated as household households, and they can squeeze into household households with famous scholars, gentry and landlords, and improve their social status.

The third article is to revise and supplement the laws of the Ming Dynasty to improve the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Article [-]: Encourage the provinces to widen official roads, mine mines, smelt metals, and encourage commerce. The imperial court restores post stations to deliver government orders, allows people to pass letters and transport goods through post stations, and encourages merchants to go to sea for trade.

Article [-]: Every province opens a school, and every county must have a government-run elementary school.Nanjing Guozijian and provincial schools need to teach miscellaneous studies.The imperial examinations are not limited to stereotyped essays, township examinations, and birth and child examinations. There should be examination questions on history, politics, current affairs, and the Four Books and Five Classics.

Article [-]: Develop Liaodong, relocate people to fill Liao, and border areas, stabilize the territory.

Article [-]: Train land divisions and navy divisions, build warships, and keep commercial routes open.

Article [-]: Restoring the etiquette of the Song Dynasty.

Article [-]: Encourage inventions, reward and recommend qualified talents...

"The New Chapter of Senior Citizens" is just a general policy outline issued by Wang Yan. It is the many goals he set for the Ming Dynasty. Many of the provisions still need to be negotiated in the council hall. It was ignited, and immediately caused shock and heated discussions between the government and the public, the most intense of which was the reform of household registration.

As soon as the first fire was lit, Wang Yan started his second fire, preparing to award meritorious persons.After all, he has been promoted to the supervisor of the country, and the people below also need rewards, so there should be no ambiguity.

The soldiers threw their heads, sprinkled their blood, fought on the battlefield, and helped Wang Yan ascend the throne of the prison country. It would be a bit nonsense to say that they were only loyal to the country for the restoration of rivers and mountains. What they valued more was the actual reward.

Wang Yan is naturally clear about this point, but this reward is not simple, because the Ming army used more than 30 horses for this expedition, and there are as many as a thousand generals and schools who are going to be promoted. It is very troublesome to count, but Wang Yan knows He had to pay more attention to the importance of this matter, so after submitting the "New Chapter of Senior Citizens" to the Chamber of Commerce, he rushed to the cabinet without stopping.

Although Wang Yan moved to supervise the country, the operating mode of the Nanjing court has not changed.

In the afternoon, Wang Yan came to Wenyuan Pavilion. He had a high status, and as soon as he came in, everyone from the cabinet ministers to the small officials would all salute.

As soon as he entered Wenyuan Pavilion, Zhang Huangyan also hurried in. He was in such a hurry that he didn't notice Wang Yan. Seeing this, Wang Yan couldn't help shouting: "Why is Xuanzhu so alarmed?"

Hearing his voice, Zhang Huangyan stopped. He was slightly taken aback when he saw Wang Yan, bowed his head and saluted, "I have seen Jian Guo!"

Wang Yan saw that he had a notebook in his hand, so he pointed to it and asked, "What's the urgent military situation? Is there a change in the Kingdom of Jin or Mongolia?"

After the Qing Dynasty was destroyed, in Wang Yan's view, the only threats from the Ming Dynasty were these two.

Zhang Huangyan said: "Reporting to the supervisor, it is Nanyang. Heyi killed my Ming merchants in Batavia, and thousands of people have died!"

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